I'm looking for a macro in asciidoc to fill some dot for answering a question in an exam, for example.
Firstname ................
Latex has something called \fillin or \dotfill , I'm looking for the same thing.
I use asciidoctor-pdf to render my asciidoc.
As far as I know, there's no built-in feature in Asciidoctor but you can write a block extension:
[form]
First name
Last name
Age
The extension will compute how many dots is needed to fill each line and create a paragraph with the result.
When using an HTML backend, the result might look like:
<p>
First name .....<br/>
Last name ......<br/>
Age ............<br/>
</p>
You could also add an option to configure the character used to fill the line:
[form,fill=_]
In this case it would produce:
<p>
First name _____<br/>
Last name ______<br/>
Age ____________<br/>
</p>
If you've never written an Asciidoctor extension before, you can have a look at: https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-extensions-lab/blob/9efe18673cf5eca79f4121755e043effeddd7cd3/lib/shout-block/extension.rb
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I am trying to get xpath for following html code, but nothing seems to be working. I appreciate your suggestion. I need to get the xpath based on text.
<label class="label" securityidpath="ACCOUNTS_FS.PART_ACCOUNT_HEADER_FS.PART_ACCOUNT_STATUS" title="Part Account Status">Part Account Status:
</label>
FYI, I tried following variant xpath
//label[normalize-space(text())='Part Account Status:\u00a0']
//label[normalize-space(text())='Part Account Status:\u000a']
//label[normalize-space(text())='Part Account Status:\u202f']
and all the options as per following url https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_character
Thank You,
Yougander
You can use
/label[normalize-space(text())='Part Account Status: ']
Or use the hexadecimal variant instead of the decimal .
Also note that XPath uses slashes (and not backslashes) to define paths, so referencing the root node label would be done by /label.
The typo lable instead of label is trivial.
BTW you can avoid the trouble with the entity by using the title attribute in your XPath:
label[normalize-space(#title)='Part Account Status']
your element name is wrong and change UTF character name as HexaDecimal entity values:
//label[normalize-space(text())='Part Account Status: ']
XPATH require forward slash
I am trying to write documentation with asciidoctor-pdf and I need to use characters like : ă,â,î,ş,ţ. The pdf output is rendered but the mentioned characters are rendered empty. I am not sure how to handle the issue.
For example:
I wrote this code:
= Document Title
Doc Writer <doc#example.com>
:doctype: book
:source-highlighter: coderay
:listing-caption: Listing
// Uncomment next line to set page size (default is Letter)
//:pdf-page-size: A4
A simple http://asciidoc.org[AsciiDoc] document.
== Introducţie
A paragraph followed by a simple list with square bullets.
And the result was the word Introducţie rendered as Introduc ie and finally the error:
/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.2/gems/pdf-core-0.2.5/lib/pdf/core/pdf_object.rb:55: warning: regexp match /.../n against to UTF-8 string
Can be a system encoding configuration problem?
Do I need to set different encoding configuration in ruby?
Thank you.
I think that if you want to be sure, you can always use the decimal entity references form. For the latin small Letter T with cedilla it is: ţ
Check this table for the complete list:
List of Unicode characters
In addition, if you want to use this special char in a title, there was an issue with it:
Section id with characters outside of Windows-1252 encoding causes warning
It seems to be fixed now, but I did not verify it.
One of possible ways to write such special characters in titles is to declare them in preamble of your asciidoc document, for example,
:t-cedil: ţ
and to call it in the main text
== pass:normal[Test-{t-cedil}]
So your title will look like
Test-ţ
I have the following haml:
9 %strong Asked by:
10 = link_to #user.full_name, user_path(#user)
11 .small= "(#{#question.created_at.strftime("%B %d, %Y")})"
This currently puts the link and the date on separate lines, when it should look like "link (date)" and date has a class span of small.....
Your code will generate something like this html:
<strong>Asked by:</strong>
User name
<div class='small'>April 26, 2011</div>
When you use something like .small (i.e. use the dot without specifying the element type) haml creates an implicit div. Since div elements are by default block level elements the date will be in a new block and so will appear on a new line. In order to get it to appear on the same line, you'll need an inline level element.
You could change the css for the "small" class to explicitly make it display inline, but html already provides an inline version of the div - the span, so you can change the last line from
.small= "(#{#question.created_at.strftime("%B %d, %Y")})"
to
%span.small= "(#{#question.created_at.strftime("%B %d, %Y")})"
which will give you
<strong>Asked by:</strong>
User name
<span class='small'>April 26, 2011</span>
which are all inline elements, so will appear as one line.
As for having it all on the same line in the haml, I don't think that's possible with plain haml syntax. Haml uses the indentation and whitespace in order to determine what to do, and having just one line means there's no indentation.
The haml FAQ says:
Expressing the structure of a document and expressing inline formatting are two very different problems. Haml is mostly designed for structure, so the best way to deal with formatting is to leave it to other languages that are designed for it.
You seem to be at the edge of what haml is intended for. You could write your html directly if you really wanted it all on one line:
<strong>Asked by:</strong> #{link_to #user.full_name, user_path(#user)} <span class="small">(#{#question.created_at.strftime("%B %d, %Y")})</span>
or perhaps you could create a helper that will generate the block for you.
To make it show up on the same line in the browser, use %span.small, as in the comment above.
To make it all on one line in the HTML output, you will need to use the whitespace removal syntax in Haml. Please understand that newlines in the HTML output do not effect the arrangement of text in the browser.
I'm trying to parse a webpage to get posts from a forum.
The start of each message starts with the following format
<div id="post_message_somenumber">
and I only want to get the first one
I tried xpath='//div[starts-with(#id, '"post_message_')]' in yql without success
I'm still learning this, anyone have suggestions
I think I have a solution that does not require dealing with namespaces.
Here is one that selects all matching div's:
//div[#id[starts-with(.,"post_message")]]
But you said you wanted just the "first one" (I assume you mean the first "hit" in the whole page?). Here is a slight modification that selects just the first matching result:
(//div[#id[starts-with(.,"post_message")]])[1]
These use the dot to represent the id's value within the starts-with() function. You may have to escape special characters in your language.
It works great for me in PowerShell:
# Load a sample xml document
$xml = [xml]'<root><div id="post_message_somenumber"/><div id="not_post_message"/><div id="post_message_somenumber2"/></root>'
# Run the xpath selection of all matching div's
$xml.selectnodes('//div[#id[starts-with(.,"post_message")]]')
Result:
id
--
post_message_somenumber
post_message_somenumber2
Or, for just the first match:
# Run the xpath selection of the first matching div
$xml.selectnodes('(//div[#id[starts-with(.,"post_message")]])[1]')
Result:
id
--
post_message_somenumber
I tried xpath='//div[starts-with(#id,
'"post_message_')]' in yql without
success I'm still learning this,
anyone have suggestions
If the problem isn't due to the many nested apostrophes and the unclosed double-quote, then the most likely cause (we can only guess without being shown the XML document) is that a default namespace is used.
Specifying names of elements that are in a default namespace is the most FAQ in XPath. If you search for "XPath default namespace" in SO or on the internet, you'll find many sources with the correct solution.
Generally, a special method must be called that binds a prefix (say "x:") to the default namespace. Then, in the XPath expression every element name "someName" must be replaced by "x:someName.
Here is a good answer how to do this in C#.
Read the documentation of your language/xpath-engine how something similar should be done in your specific environment.
#FindBy(xpath = "//div[starts-with(#id,'expiredUserDetails') and contains(text(), 'Details')]")
private WebElementFacade ListOfExpiredUsersDetails;
This one gives a list of all elements on the page that share an ID of expiredUserDetails and also contains the text or the element Details
I have a string like this.
<p class='link'>try</p>bla bla</p>
I want to get only <p class='link'>try</p>
I have tried this.
/<p class='link'>[^<\/p>]+<\/p>/
But it doesn't work.
How can I can do this?
Thanks,
If that is your string, and you want the text between those p tags, then this should work...
/<p\sclass='link'>(.*?)<\/p>/
The reason yours is not working is because you are adding <\/p> to your not character range. It is not matching it literally, but checking for not each character individually.
Of course, it is mandatory I mention that there are better tools for parsing HTML fragments (such as a HTML parser.)
'/<p[^>]+>([^<]+)<\/p>/'
will get you "try"
It looks like you used this block: [^<\/p>]+ intending to match anything except for </p>. Unfortunately, that's not what it does. A [] block matches any of the characters inside. In your case, the /<p class='link'>[^<\/p>]+ part matched <p class='link'>try</, but it was not immediately followed by the expected </p>, so there was no match.
Alex's solution, to use a non-greedy qualifier is how I tend to approach this sort of problem.
I tried to make one less specific to any particular tag.
(<[^/]+?\s+[^>]*>[^>]*>)
this returns:
<p class='link'>try</p>